storage archaeology 2025-09-14T09:28:06Z
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Rain lashed against the airport window as I scrolled through my corpse of a phone. Forty-eight hours earlier, I'd captured the desert sunset at Monument Valley - crimson light bleeding over sandstone monoliths, the last rays catching dust motes like floating embers. Now? Gray emptiness. That accidental "factory reset" notification I'd dismissed as a glitch had devoured three months of fieldwork. My throat tightened imagining those irreplaceable geological formations lost to digital oblivion.